back to the moon

Science News Article | Reuters.co.uk

"A NASA spacecraft will deliberately crash into the Moon in January 2009"

hmm ... 40 years after man walked there we final have the technology to send a water testing probe.

Also man won't walk again on the moon until ... 2020.
A 50 year turn around.

btw ... Kennedy announced the desire to send man to the Moon and it was done in less than 10 years, and 7 years after the US even got to space.

We can't even send a crew around the rock 40 years after the fact?

# October 4, 1957. Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite is launched by the Soviet Union.
# April 12, 1961. Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space.
# July 21, 1969. Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to walk on the moon.